In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

And it certainly wasn’t a choice without risk. But then very few worthwhile things in life are. The greater the risk, the greater the reward.

Personal emotions should be carefully monitored. Emotional ties are to be exploited but never felt.

My president will boldly throw 1 million into poverty.

The most important thing today is that Mark Webber is safe and OK. After a very nasty accident, he's fine.

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Work at it night and day.

No man can lose what he never had.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.